One Unto Another

Love One Unto Another

One of those adorable moments caught on camera. A picture that grandma's gawk at and friends awe over. For us, it's that one moment of eatable cuteness between all of the snatching, pushing, swatting, yelling and down right self-centeredness that comes along with brotherly/sisterly love.

Single moments of genuine love for another amid lives of self orientation. Sadly, that statement is true of a lot of God's children today. Too many of us are spiritually stuck at the maturity level of a two year old. Moments of love in the middle of chaos or moments of chaos in the midst of love? Which are you experiencing?


My little bundles of personality are not animals by any means, but you don't have to teach a child to be selfish. One of the earliest words for a child is "mine". Our son defends his toys with vigorous fervor. He doesn't share well with his sister right now and that can be a little trying for us as parents. If she has it, he wants it and he takes it. She'll go find something else only to have George come over and want that too. I can say that Lilly is learning the art of defense though! Yet, in the middle of this crazy chaos they can find moments to laugh together, hug each other and even trade kisses.

For most of us, our christian experience is much of the same. We become tenacious about defending "what is rightfully ours". If we lend, it is with interest upon return. We envy what others have and go to great lengths to get or even top those items. Our lifestyles are focused mainly on "us" until that moment comes along for expressing love to another (as long as someone else is watching of course). Have we not grown? Have we not matured? Have we not learned to have genuine love One unto Another?

  Romans 12:10 (NASB)

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

 Love without hypocrisy. Genuine and mature love that becomes selfless. We are called to love one another and honor one another greater than we do ourselves. Living in a "love me and I'll love you" society, brotherly love seems out of place or beyond the norm. "Me first" and "My way" have been the mantras of many generations. Could this be due to the lack of spiritual maturity in today's believers? 

  1 Peter 4:9 (NASB)

Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

Did you almost choke on those last two words? Don't worry... me too. We can be so hospitable to those we love because they love us. Obviously not the case here. Peter is instructing that love covers a multitude of wrongs. Now think about the last time you had to be hospitable to the one who wronged you. Sure, you may have let them in your home, worn a smile, even said something nice, but did you complain? Gotcha! Got me too! 

  John 15:17 (NASB)

This I command you, that you love one another.

This is pretty self explanatory. We are called to love one another with true and genuine love. Too many times we just scratch the surface of what it is to really love one another. We find it easy to love those who love us. We tolerate loving those we feel we have to. And we fake loving those we flat out hate. It truly is a sad state of affairs, this thing we call love. When compared with 1st Corinthians 13, I'm not sure we even know what love is. I don't know about you, but I sure am glad we have a Father who is there to show us how to love in the midst of all our "snatching, pushing, swatting, yelling, and down right self-centeredness"!

As precious as my kids are, they will grow up learning to love each other and honor each other. Sometimes it will be a whole lot of chaos with moments of love. Other times, it will be a whole lot of love in the middle of turmoil. Through it all, love will prevail!

Let us not endure moments of love in chaotic lifestyles, but may we live lifestyles of love enduring moments of chaos.

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